Can smart women be stylish? Can opinionated women be given the luxury of putting together a look? Prize-winning Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie of Half of a Yellow Sun, and more recently, Americanah, plays her sartorial part in putting this long-running debate to rest.

Time and again, she has been known to make smart sound sexy – you must remember her from the 2012 TEDx talk where her championing of feminism shook the cultural world so much so that Beyoncé later sampled her speech in her hit-single 'Flawless'. Rather unsurprisingly then, she can also make sexy sound smart.

All through March, Adichie will be photo-blogging her daily fashion ensembles for the Vogue UK website. "Today I'm Wearing…" and she announces her #OOTD. She is nostalgic of dresses that remind her of her mother, expresses fondness for her go-to Anya Hindmarch bag which just about fits a paperback and even confesses that quite frankly, Cinderella's shoes are the only element of the fairytale she can actually tolerate.

Follow her all through this month for updates on the stilettos she's strutting in, and the self-designed neckpieces she's flaunting.